Distantly In Love Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Distantly In Love 

By: Jimmy Buffett 

1983 

For Jane and Savannah Jane 

Payphones all were ringing as the crowd went roarin' by 

Lovely dancers swayin' to an island lullaby 

Beside the southern ocean taking stock of what's to be 

Writing you this letter that you'll probably never see 

Chorus: 

But I can't help but be 

Ruled by inconsistencies 

Not unique just distantly in love 

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Tried to phone from Paris thinking things could be arranged 

Me and you would rendezvous but I found your number changed 

So I drove to San Remo where the crazy painter dwells 

Toasted our old photograph still up there on his shelf 

Chorus: 

But I can't help but be 

Ruled by my antiquities 

Not unique just distantly in love 

I can't be the one to fill 

Your times and all your places 

I can't be the one to fill 

Your blanks and empty spaces 

I heard it from a friend of ours I saw in Timber Bay 

You had a new lover who had stolen you away 

That could be the reason that I never got in touch 

May present slight problems if he loves you half as much 

Photos 

Chorus: 

As I who can't help but be 

Ruled by my antiquities 

Not unique just distantly in love 

You know I can't help but be 

Part of my own philosophies 

Not unique just distantly in love 

- Notes: 

Mandolin: Josh Leo